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This week's song for the over 10-month set was "When You're Smiling (the Whole World Smiles With You)."
This seemed like a strange choice of tune, not for its subject matter, of course, which is inoffensive, unless you're the sort of person who resents being told that you can't be expected to make friends and influence people if you don't "Put on a Happy Face" (Oh! I wonder if that one will turn up). Do I reveal too much?
No, what made the choice odd is that it is, like so many songs of its era, really very difficult to sing. Of course it is. All sorts of amazing people have recorded the song (Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, Alberta Hunter- on a record called Downhearted Blues, naturally), of course they'd pick something that let them show off a little.
On other fronts, Felix and I made an initial foray into the playground. I had been putting it off, of course, but in my defense, he can't do very much, which isn't to say he didn't love it. If only there were those swings like rubber buckets with leg holes cut out of them. He would like those.
At any rate, things went well with us hunched under an underused piece of junglegym. Felix even met someone, a older (running, talking, climbing) kid called Holden. One hopes Felix didn't come off as a phony.
I'm still not sanguine about the playground. At certain hours- the one I rather unwisely chose this afternoon, for instance- the place has a cocktail party air to it. Everyone is racing around, bubbling, giddy and shrieking, or having intense conversations in little clusters that once couldn't hope to penetrate.
I'll have to squeeze around this discomfort and take refuge in Felix's flighty attention span and inability to do very much.
Perhaps we can find an opportune moment and try the slide together.
posted by Elise at 9:45 AM
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